I am a self proclaimed horror and dark fantasy fic writer. You want darkness, death, and despair? You've come to the right place. Also an eternal Twilight Sparkle and avid Lovecraft fan.
I don't know if this is gonna be any good but I'll be damned if I miss this one whether it sucks or not. Hell I might even review it in a future blog.
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Really? I guess Nicolas cage could be good in a couple rolls in that story. I don't see it but it's possible.
Now I've always enjoyed The Color out of Space so I'll give it a chance.
I had already heard about this via Cracked.
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Are you kidding? For once Cage is the least crazy thing going on in a movie.
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You're absolutely correct. Alright, now I'm eager.
Eh, fuck it. I'll still check it out.
The color out of space gets a movie?! Yay!! Nicholas cage? Okay. I’ll still check it out.
I think that Nicolas Cage is perfect for a movie like this. He is the least insane thing in the story.
Lovecraft movies are best made without in-your-face CGI due to the indescribable nature of cosmic horror.
The giant fuck-you-CGI-fire-tornado at the end does not bode well.
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Make no mistake I go into this knowing full well that this movie, probably more than any other movie based on Lovecraft's works, doesn't—or rather shouldn't even work conceptually just from the fact that they'd visually have to describe what's supposed to be an indescribable color. I in no way am going to hold this movie up to the standards of the original story, but rather try to enjoy the movie for what it is, in-your-face CG effects and all.
It's one thing to write in a book that a color is indescribable and like nothing anyone has ever seen before. It's an entirely different thing to actually show that on film. And judging by the trailer, they completely failed at it. That was literally just a purplish pink color.
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Like I said, the movie was never going to work as a concept because of how the story was written. It's an idea that fails right out of the gate but I'm gonna watch it anyway because I wanna see what the director does with it. If it's crap, then it's crap, and it most likely will be but, eh... even then I still can't help but wanna see it.
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It's definitely doable, you just need to get creative. You could show the wrong "color" by desaturating everything it touches and establishing that the people can't describe it and can't reproduce it or capture it on photographs or video. It would give an alien look to everything while also being subtle enough and sell some of the fear of the unknown.
You need to let the people watching it do the work on trying to understand the color or struggling with the lack of it, instead of assigning some real color to it that actually exists.
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Perhaps, but that carries its own problems in my opinion in that it wouldn't be as visually stimulating and thus would sap some of the horror in the process. Sure I and other Lovecraft fans might find it unsettling knowing the context but I don't think it would work that well for the average horror movie fan.
At that point you're essentially sacrificing what could potentially be a visually entertaining experience for authenticity. It would be one thing if the color wasn't important to the overall plot, but the whole story is centered around it. If we as the audience can't see that color, then what's the point?
The concept as a whole isn't feasible because we, as the audience, need to see this alien color in order for this to work as a movie and there's no way to accurately represent something like that in that type of media.
Then again these are just my thoughts on the idea. Maybe it would work, I'm not a director nor do I even watch movies all that often so feel free to take my opinions with a grain of salt.
I wouldn't exactly call the effects in the trailer as "visually entertaining experience." They look pretty damn terrible.
Considering that the movie here is just substituting an indescribable color that does not really exist with magenta, I'd just take a sickly desaturation as the "color." You'd need to build suspense and stress how cameras couldn't capture the color as it doesn't really exist in the spectrum.
*When Cage raises the shotgun and screams*
Ahhh. There’s the Nick Cage we all know and love.
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To be fair, magenta is in fact not a real color. It shows that they have a functioning grasp of science and/or Google... which is actually sort of a problem because the Cthulhu Mythos is an extremely pro-ignorance setting.
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Magenta is a real color as far as human perception is concerned. You can take a photograph of something magenta, and the photograph will show magenta.
And I don't really believe the have a grasp of anything, especially science, when they picked that color.